I've had the LED on at the Beddington 'obs' in the week and had 3 Spring Ushers one night and an Agonopterix alstromeriana on another. When I arrived at the 'country retreat' at the Old Vic yesterday there was an Early moth on the wall. Unlike others who have bothered putting the trap out in deepest darkest winter I have not had Chestnuts, Pale Brindled Beauty, any Acleris sp and of course not the slightest sniff of the deep winter speciality Black-spotted Chestnut which has been caught not too far away from the Old Vic recently HERE.
Early moth
Spring Ushers (above and belows) . No discal spots and all the same size and shape so I'm going for Spring Usher on all of them despite the 'extreme' variation. Here's a couple of others from earlier too showing more variation including melanism HERE.
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